I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.
Before you hate something you should try to understand it.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
Children. . . will never go astray while they are in good company.
I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new. ' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren. ' I never forgot that because. . . I thought that was a compliment.
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.